About John Kinyon
John mediates conflict and trains people in communication and conflict resolution skills around the world. He specializes in NVC mediation—applying the language, skills and principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to mediating conflict within oneself, with others, and helping others who are in conflict.
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Over the past 8 years, John has developed, with colleague Ike Lasater, international NVC mediation trainings and year immersion programs in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and South Korea, including work with Afghan tribal elders along the Pakistani border in early 2002, where they saw first hand that despite at least eight languages being used and layers of cobbled-together, ad hoc translation, connection to universal human needs and the NVC mediation approach worked even with a real dispute that came alive in the room during the training. John has been a trainer of the international Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) since 2000, and has studied and worked closely with NVC founder Marshall Rosenberg since 1998. John is also a co-founder of the Bay Area NVC organization (BayNVC).
John has mediated conflicts in a wide variety of contexts, including couples, family, community, business, legal contexts and institutions. In organizations he has had particular experience with small and family businesses. John’s mediation practice has included an entire graduate faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles, the Executive vice Chancellor and all the vice chancellors at another UC system university, numerous small and family businesses, families with inheritance issues, faculty and administration in alternative schools, personal and business partnership dissolutions, and individuals and groups desiring conflict coaching and communication training support.
John’s professional background is in academic psychology and psychotherapy. He received his B.A. from the University of San Francisco, where he majored in studies of psychology and philosophy and played for their nationally ranked soccer team. He went on to receive a degree in clinical psychology from Penn State University, spending 5 years of doctoral training working as a psychotherapist with individuals and groups, and as a research assistant at the Penn State Stress and Anxiety Disorders Institute. After graduate school, John helped start and develop a small commercial business before going on to full time communication and conflict resolution work. John lives with his wife and three children in the San Francisco Bay Area. For additional information about John and colleague Ike Lasater’s trainings see www.nvcmediation.com.
John lives with his wife and three children in the San Francisco Bay Area.